Oracle grows cloud services offering

Sep 27, 2013

As organisations of all sizes move more of their information systems to the cloud, Oracle is expanding the number of Oracle Cloud services to strengthen its position as the industry’s most comprehensive public cloud.
Oracle Cloud offers a broad range of modern, functionally rich and integrated services running in a secure, enterprise and standards-based cloud platform. With new Application, Platform and Infrastructure Services, Oracle is helping customers and partners further capitalise on the power of cloud computing.

Extending the industry’s broadest and most advanced cloud portfolio, Oracle introduced 10 new Oracle Cloud services for its customers and partners.

The new services expand Oracle’s comprehensive portfolio of Application, Social, Platform and Infrastructure Services and are all available on a subscription basis.

Unlike other clouds that offer services in one or two layers, Oracle Cloud is the only cloud that delivers a broad portfolio of integrated services across applications, social, platform and infrastructure.

Oracle offers customers and partners choice and flexibility in where they deploy Oracle software: in traditional on-premise data centres, private clouds, Oracle Cloud and other public clouds.

Oracle Cloud continues to show strong adoption, supporting 9-million users and 19-billion transactions each day, running on 7 000 servers and 200 petabytes of storage in 13 data centres around the world.

Oracle Cloud partners will be able to refer and resell the new Oracle Cloud Platform and Infrastructure services through the existing Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Cloud programs, enabling them to deliver a comprehensive portfolio of Application, Social, Platform and Infrastructure cloud-based services to their customers.

* Database Cloud – provides full control of a dedicated database instance and supports any Oracle Database application, giving users greater flexibility and choice over the level of managed services provided by Oracle.

* Java Cloud – provides Oracle WebLogic Server clusters for deployment of Java applications and gives full administrative control over the service with automated backup, recovery, patching and high availability capabilities.

* Business Intelligence Cloud – enables users to analyse data with visual, interactive dashboards for the Web and mobile devices. Provides self-service data loading, modelling, analysis and application administration capabilities in the cloud without the assistance of IT.

“With the broadest selection of enterprise-grade cloud solutions in the world, Oracle is uniquely positioned to meet this demand. With an expanding portfolio of functionally rich, integrated and secure enterprise cloud services, Oracle continues to lead the cloud computing industry by delivering instant value to both business users and developers.”